Snapshot

early musical studies in Berlin * emigrated to Ecuador in 1939 * in the same year received a grant for the Mannes School of Music in New York * studied composition with Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe and Ralph Shapey * personal use of Schönberg’s 12-tone-method, with complex rhythms and varying sound-colours * teached composition at New York University, Temple University and Manhattan School of Music * composed c75 works: solo pieces, chamber and orchestral music * received numerous awards * since 2006 resided in her birth town Berlin again